Integration of optical and SAR data for burned area mapping in Mediterranean regions

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1320-1345

  Stroppiana, Daniela ^a   Azar, Ramin ^a,b   Calò, Fabiana ^a   Pepe, Antonio ^a   Imperatore, Pasquale ^a   Boschetti, Mirco ^a   Silva, João M N ^c   Brivio, Pietro A ^a   Lanari, Riccardo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Burned area mapping; Fire monitoring; Fuzzy sets theory; Landsat TM; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; DATA INTEGRATION; ERRORS; FIRES; FUZZY SET THEORY; FUZZY SETS; MAPPING; RADAR; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; BURNED-AREA MAPPING; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIRE MONITORING; FUZZY SETS THEORY; LANDSAT TM; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; REGION GROWING ALGORITHM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84928781647     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70201320     Document Type: Article

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